today I'm going to show you how to pair one of the most inexpensive remotes out
there today I'm going to tell you about a number of new products I can't believe
how many I'm going to tell you about as well as what looks to be an Access and
key system coming out from SmartThings that will replace a lot of what you do
right now
hello Automators thanks for tuning in again I'm Brian
from Automate Your Life and we take the frustration out of automation now today
I'm going to give you all the latest updates from Samsung and their
SmartThings platform let's get going let's start with the fancy five button
remote here from Ikea now this remote is relatively inexpensive but it's been
sitting in my home for a while because really I haven't wanted to use the IKEA
Tradfri Hub I really don't want to use that gateway when I have SmartThings in
my home now recently I moved the bulbs over to SmartThings because you could
pair those directly but what I've been able to do today is reset this remote
and go ahead and pair it with smart things using the add device function in
the new application and then just choosing outlet actually and then
utilizing this as that device now what happened here over the last week was
Samsung put in a full device handler for this all five buttons now work you can
utilize them to control all of your connected lights and do a lot of things
so you get the press in the hold function here from these buttons the
SmartThings vision was a device that was announced at CES now this is
intended to be a smarter motion sensor and it is being released right now in
Sweden Norway and the Netherlands so those are the countries actually getting
this one first off the idea behind this motion sensor is not to be a camera it's
just there to be able to tell you the difference between people pets and then
other motion as well and give you the right kinds of notifications there
clearly a device like the vision is going to have a lot of applications
inside of SmartThings and I'm really interested to see how Samsung's AI
perform here now speaking of improvements to the
platform the Samsung SmartThings cam it's a $90 u.s. camera has come out and
is available for purchase now and they are shipping what's nice about this
camera is number one the price is pretty good number two you know they have a
free cloud storage option now it only gives you 24 hours and then you can
upgrade if you'd like to get more cameras or have that longer storage
option and on top of that what smart things has also done is within the
application now they will give you notifications with a thumbnail from that
camera as well so really putting that all together as they launch this product
they put out a new SmartThings Wi-Fi outlet that really obviously is a
companion device here to the smart things
ZigBee plug but they also put out ZigBee bulbs around that $10 u.s. mark so
really hitting the market with a lot of new products speaking of which there
appears to be a new what is essentially a keypad called the access and an access
key which looks like a replacement for the arrival sensor and that's going to
be a pretty welcome replacement actually the arrival sensors haven't been
received well or have functioned that well now what we don't know is all kinds
of things about this device we do know it will come out around fall of 2019
here we don't know which countries and we don't know what it is entirely
intended for and we don't know which protocols they're going to use for these
devices but what it looks like is going to be capable with this device is the
ability to give different people access keys and have different scenes trigger
with those different access keys with the new tp-link connectivity there for
your Wi-Fi smart plugs and your Wi-Fi bulbs from tp-link we've also seen other
companies jump onboard here that are Wi-Fi base so brilliant those are the
light switches with the little panels on them and you get to see quite a bit more
there with those they are also integrated will now with smart things
directly as we towards a replacement of the classic
application for the new one and I'll keep you up-to-date as much as I can
here with this application it looks like Samsung is getting very close but
they're adding a ton more here so when you push that plus button rate on the
top you're getting a ton of new options here you'll notice the ability to add a
voice assistant right there so this is the ability to connect with Amazon and
Google's voice assistance immediately and do it kind of in an easier way it's
been hard to find for the last little while they also have the ability to add
a Lighting Group which you can't put in two routines just yet or automations
just yet but is there and is a nice function as far as I'm concerned already
the add member ability is there as well and the ability to add a room very
quickly all right here from that plus button now there's also some interesting
functionality kind of throughout the application as well or some changes here
that have gone on so what you're gonna notice if you hold on lots of your
devices is the ability to hide that device so if there's a device you don't
want to see all the time you can also very quickly move it to
another room and then edit the device overall one thing on the automate your
life community boards that I just saw here in the past week is actually coming
from one of our members Frank who has created a bixby capsule so that's what
they're called now and you're going to see the bixby integration hit hard into
smart things I think and what Frank has already done is created what is
essentially a workout application for seniors or for those living
independently as the term he's using now this is a great application and again
just head over to our community ports to see it I've also been working with a
number of new a o tech devices so they have a new siren that they've put out
excellent device and a new doorbell as well that they've put out both devices
have been great so far now what you would have seen on the channel a couple
of weeks ago was the multi sensor six this is obviously an older device but a
very very good device and I did a comparison versus the motion sensors
that comparison is up on screen now you could go watch that and learn why it is
such an upgrade over these motion sensors here from
SmartThings themselves otherwise guys don't hate on me